IC 440
IC 440
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
201 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 201 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 440 as it looked roughly 201 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
IC 442Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 2258Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 1544Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 2314Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 2174Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 1573Elliptical31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2258Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 1544Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 2314Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 2174Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 1573Elliptical31 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).